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A new paper titled “HunEmBERT: a fine-tuned BERT-model for classifying sentiment and emotion in political communication,” authored by István Üveges and Orsolya Ring, was published in IEEE Access, a Q1 (Scimago), IF 3.467 journal in the field of computer science, on June 13, 2023. The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3285536 The PDF version can be found …

15 June, 2023 – New publication by István Üveges and Orsolya Ring in IEEE Access Read More »

The journal article by Miklós Sebők, Rebeka Kiss and Ádám Kovács has been published in Parliamentary Affairs on June 12, 2023, entitled The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding. The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsad014 The PDF version can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/pa/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/pa/gsad014/50576067/gsad014.pdf

This year’s call for proposals for the MTA’s Momentum Programme received 108 valid proposals, 27 in the humanities and social sciences, 40 in the life sciences and 41 in the mathematical and natural sciences. Based on the peer review, the recommendations of the Momentum Jury and the Momentum Committee, the President of the Academy decided …

8 June, 2023 – Miklós Sebők receives major new grant to apply artificial intelligence to the study of Central European policy agendas Read More »

The European Consurtium for Political Research (ECPR) has recognized the following poltextLAB publication with an honourable mention: Miklós Sebők, Bálint György Kubik, Csaba Molnár, István Péter Járay, Anna Székely:Measuring legislative stability: a new approach with data from Hungary (You can read the journal article here.) The Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize is awarded for an article …

5 June, 2023 – poltextLAB publication recognized with an honourable mention for ECPR’s 2022 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize Read More »

On 23rd May, 2023 the “Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Training Program” was successfully held by Orsolya Ring, Ákos Máté and Péter Gelányi with 11 beginner level and 5 advanced level participants. The course introduced participants to basic text mining tasks and their applications in social sciences. They were given an overview of the differences …

23 May, 2023 – 2023 Spring Text Mining and Artificial Intelligence Training Program Read More »

Members of poltextLAB attended a conference of the COMPTEXT international text mining network in Glasgow from 12 to 13 May. At the COMPTEXT conference, poltextLAB’s research was presented at the following presentations: Miklós Sebők – Amnon Cavari – Ákos Máté:Assessing the Policy Agenda of U.S. Presidential Speeches – A Sentence-Level Deep Learning Approach Ákos Máté …

12-13 May, 2023 – poltextLAB at the COMPTEXT 2023 conference Read More »

The journal article by Miklós Sebők, Rebeka Kiss and István Járay has been published in the Journal of Knowledge Economy on May 8, 2023, entitled Introducing HUNCOURT: A New Open Legal Database Covering the Decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court for Between 1990 and 2021. The article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01395-6 The PDF version can …

8 May, 2023 – New publication by Miklós Sebők, Rebeka Kiss, István Járay in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy Read More »

The Visegrad Fund approved the funding of the grant proposal ‘Identifying News Slant in Crisis Communication Using Artificial Intelligence’ of the Centre for Social Sciences. Orsolya Ring, a research fellow at the Institute of Political Science and senior researcher at poltextLAB, lead the one-and-a-half-year research programme. The research, with partners from the Czech Republic, Poland …

20 April, 2023 – Successful Application to the International Visegrad Fund Call Read More »

The poltextLAB team’s submission for the SLICES-SC consortium’s “2nd SLICES-SC Open Call” has been successfully accepted. The SLICES-SC project builds a community of researchers around SLICES-RI, which offers the necessary solutions to create and manage efficiently IT-related experiments. As per the successful proposal, poltextLAB will be granted access to the imec research group iLab.t‘s GPULab …

31 March, 2023 – Successful submission for the 2nd SLICES-SC Open Call Read More »

Nathalie Neptune – researcher at Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) – will be taking part of the Visiting Professorship program in April 2023. Neptune will be working in poltextLAB on the hyperparameter tuning of monolingual and bilingual Longformer models as part of the CAP BABEL MACHINE project.